Second plane with Armenian humanitarian aid off to Syria
05.10.2016,
16:26
A second plane with Armenian humanitarian aid left today the Armenian capital Yerevan for Syria.
YEREVAN, October 5. /ARKA/. A second plane with Armenian humanitarian aid left today the Armenian capital Yerevan for Syria. At Armenia’s Zvartnots international airport the plane was seen off by deputy head of the Armenian presidential staff Vardan Makaryan and Russian ambassador to Armenia Ivan Volynkin.
The first plane carrying the aid landed at the Russian military's Hmeimim airbase in northwestern Syria early on Tuesday, the foreign ministry said. Armenian foreign ministry thanked Russian defense and foreign ministries for assistance in the transportation of the humanitarian aid.
According to the department of information and mass communications of the Russian defense ministry, the first aid was delivered by Russian military transport aircraft IL-76 that flew from the Erebuni airport in Yerevan. It delivered about 40 tons of canned food, vegetables, bakery products, flour and sugar.
"The humanitarian aid will be delivered by the Russian military to the Syrian villages, most affected from military operations", - the Russian defense ministry said, according to Interfax.
Earlier, Armenia’s foreign ministry said that president Serzh Sargsyan ordered to send two planeloads of relief aid to Syria to "support the population affected by the Syrian conflict." The announcement came shortly after five ethnic Armenian residents of Aleppo were killed and 11 others wounded by rebel shelling.
Before the outbreak of the Syrian conflict the Armenian community in that country was estimated at more than 80,000 with greater part being concentrated in Aleppo. Only several thousand Syrian Armenians remain in Aleppo now. Virtually all of them live in neighborhoods controlled by government troops. According to Armenian government estimates, more than 16,000 Syrian Armenians have taken refuge in Armenia in the last four years. -0-
The first plane carrying the aid landed at the Russian military's Hmeimim airbase in northwestern Syria early on Tuesday, the foreign ministry said. Armenian foreign ministry thanked Russian defense and foreign ministries for assistance in the transportation of the humanitarian aid.
According to the department of information and mass communications of the Russian defense ministry, the first aid was delivered by Russian military transport aircraft IL-76 that flew from the Erebuni airport in Yerevan. It delivered about 40 tons of canned food, vegetables, bakery products, flour and sugar.
"The humanitarian aid will be delivered by the Russian military to the Syrian villages, most affected from military operations", - the Russian defense ministry said, according to Interfax.
Earlier, Armenia’s foreign ministry said that president Serzh Sargsyan ordered to send two planeloads of relief aid to Syria to "support the population affected by the Syrian conflict." The announcement came shortly after five ethnic Armenian residents of Aleppo were killed and 11 others wounded by rebel shelling.
Before the outbreak of the Syrian conflict the Armenian community in that country was estimated at more than 80,000 with greater part being concentrated in Aleppo. Only several thousand Syrian Armenians remain in Aleppo now. Virtually all of them live in neighborhoods controlled by government troops. According to Armenian government estimates, more than 16,000 Syrian Armenians have taken refuge in Armenia in the last four years. -0-
